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  "url": "https://botanai.app/genus/epiphyllum/",
  "id": {
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  "family": "Cactaceae",
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      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum baueri",
      "authorship": "Dorsch",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670150",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-baueri",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum cartagense",
      "authorship": "(F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose",
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      "url": null
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      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum chrysocardium",
      "authorship": "Alexander",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670160",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum grandilobum",
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      "slug": "epiphyllum-grandilobum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum hookeri",
      "authorship": "Haw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670187",
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      "photographs_found": 5,
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epiphyllum-hookeri/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum laui",
      "authorship": "Kimnach",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670193",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-laui",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum macropterum",
      "authorship": "(Lem.) Britton & Rose",
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      "slug": "epiphyllum-macropterum",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum oxypetalum",
      "authorship": "(DC.) Haw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670203",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-oxypetalum",
      "photographs_found": 37,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epiphyllum-oxypetalum/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum phyllanthus",
      "authorship": "(L.) Haw.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670206",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-phyllanthus",
      "photographs_found": 61,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/epiphyllum-phyllanthus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum pumilum",
      "authorship": "Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670221",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-pumilum",
      "photographs_found": 2,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum thomasianum",
      "authorship": "(K.Schum.) Britton & Rose",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670245",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-thomasianum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum × floribundum",
      "authorship": "Kimnach",
      "wfo": "wfo-0001430879",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-floribundum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum × jenkinsonii",
      "authorship": "G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670191",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-jenkinsonii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum × rollissonii",
      "authorship": "T.Moore",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670228",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-rollissonii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum × splendens",
      "authorship": "Anon.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670239",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-splendens",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum × splendidum",
      "authorship": "Paxton",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670240",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-splendidum",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Epiphyllum × vandesii",
      "authorship": "G.Don",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000670254",
      "slug": "epiphyllum-vandesii",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
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  "evidence_gate": {
    "rule": "at least 3 photographs licensed for commercial use",
    "rationale": "This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species below the gate is listed here rather than given a page of its own."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
      "note": "accepted names, authorities, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "data": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/epiphyllum/"
  }
}